Irina的1001夜

Digital printing, hand-bound book 数码印刷，手工制书 2023

This is a hand-bound volume documenting Irina’s 1001 dreams. Taking inspiration from the legendary tales of 1001 Nights, she aims to collect 1001 dreams, which have become a central theme in her artistic practice. Through diary-like recordings, she transforms these dreams into an archive — whenever she needs inspiration or material, she searches this repository to fuel her creations.

The dreams encompass wartime trauma (e.g., a 1999 dream at age five of searching for family in a bombed city amid half-collapsed buildings) social critique (e.g., a vision where an isolated girl lies on grass with her only friend, whispering: “Don’t you think today’s clouds just like a René Magritte painting? That means this world isn’t real. When you’re scared, just close your eyes, and when you open them again, everything will be back to normal”) fantasy and so on…

这是一本手工装订的书，书里记载了Irina的1001个梦，她用著名的童话1001夜为题，希望收集到1001个梦。梦已然成为了她作品中重要的题材，于是她用日记的形式将梦记录下来，使其成为一个档案，每当她需要一些灵感或素材时，就可以检索档案，获得作品来源。

这些梦有的关于战争: 1999年，irina5岁时梦到城市被轰炸，一个人在只剩一半的大楼中寻找亲人。有的关于社会问题: 一个被同学们孤立的女孩和唯一的朋友躺在草地上，女孩对朋友说：”你不觉得今天的云很像René Magritte的画吗？这意味着世界是假的，当你害怕的时候，就闭上眼，再睁开后一切都会回归正常。”

Photo: Ying-Tzu Chen